| Los Angeles
painter Greg Rose combines the flat, psychedelic-colored style of Southern
California painting with Asian-inspired landscapes. The resulting paintings
are both soothing and unnerving. Rose presents his calligraphic and minimalist
representations of trees, streams, stones, and scholar rocks (like the ones
in the Kemper Museum's indoor courtyard) in decal-like paint surfaces. Intense
hues and disquieting color combinations complicate any easy reading of these
paintings as contemplative Chinese landscapes. Rose straddles the borders
between Asia and America and tradition and innovation. This was Rose's first
museum exhibition. Greg Rose was an artist in residence. |
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